You have dared to return to the "heroic couplet" but manage it so naturally that there remains no trace of "monotony in wire" or of rhetorical epigrams, and the rhymes seem to come sponte sua, et quod temptabas dicere, versus erat.

For my part, as Sallust said of Carthage, praestat silere, quam pauca dicere; I have said, yet one thing I will add, that this kind of physic is very moderately and advisedly to be used, upon good occasion, when the former of diet will not take place.

And Baldus the lawyer scoffs on, quum scholaris, inquit, loquitur cum puella, non praesumitur ei dicere, Pater noster, when a scholar talks with a maid, or another man's wife in private, it is presumed he saith not a pater noster.